![]() ![]() The company's chief executive Jerry Shen said on an investor call, "At this moment, for last year and this year, I believe Windows RT needs to take time to ramp up." That's a nice way of saying that Windows RT is failing in the marketplace. Of those, Lenovo and Dell have said that Windows RT is selling "as expected," but Asus isn’t playing along. ![]() That leaves three total manufacturing partners - Lenovo, Asus and Dell - that actually have a Windows RT device on the market. That’s mere months after it decided against even launching its Ativ Tab with Windows RT in the U.S. Samsung is pulling its Windows RT tablet out of Germany and other parts of Europe due to low forecasted sales.Simply put, "consumers aren't buying Windows RT's value proposition," IDC Research Director Tom Mainelli states in the release. The firm forecasts that Windows RT will only grow to 2.7-percent market share by 2017. The most recent report from IDC estimates that Windows RT tablets make up only 1.9-percent of the tablet market.It’s time for Microsoft to take a hard look at what it's trying to accomplish and figure out how to salvage the troubled operating system before it has a real failure on its hands. Evidence abounds that Windows RT, Microsoft's version of Windows 8 for ARM-based devices like tablets, is in trouble. ![]()
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